The
most important reason people should vote for me is to guarantee
Estonia's security.Estonia
needs friends. Military security must come from NATO, from the USA,
my country the UK and even from France. The EU is weak on this.

Since
I am from the West, there will be a lot of media interest in me. I am
already in the international media, the BBC, Al Jazeera, the
Economist. If I am elected, I will able to galvanise the media and
the general public in the rest of Europe and the World especially the
Anglosphere to take an interest in what is happening in Estonia, to
support Estonia, and to defend it in a way that other candidates
can't.

Eventually
the issue will move beyond me as an unusual politician, and to the
bigger issue of European integration and the European dream.

2.
Name theme(s) which you plan to be active in the European Parliament
and the reason for this choice.The
theme that concerns me most is a decent living sa…

I really wanted to be a
hippyInterview with the US
Ambassador Jeffrey Levine.Published Eesti Ekpress
13 March Most people believe that
for security, Estonia must always look to the United States, not to
Europe.
With Russia flexing its
muscles again, now would be a good time to look at the U.S.
Ambassador, to find out what kind of person he is, and what forces
have shaped him. The good news, for
Estonia, is that Jeff Levine, the boyish, 59 year old US
representative, to paraphrase Sally Field's Oscar infamous acceptance
speech; " really, really, likes Estonia."" The bad news, for hawkish
Estonians, is Levine is not a warrior, at heart he is a hippy. Love
and peace, man, make love not war, troops out of Vietnam, all of
that. "I
am a bit too young to be a hippy, but I really wanted to be,"
Levine clarifies.
"I
was 15 in 1970, I was never a punk. Hippy was the last movement I
really embraced," he said.
Levine
is a very amiable, open and honest. Throug…

Social Democrats are solid as a rock Published Postimees 17 February 2014 When I raised the issue of Russian
language education to a young man I know, he took his glasses off,
paused for a second, then he started to rant. He was talking so fast
in English I couldn't take it all in. “If
Russians want to live in Estonia they should learn our language and
there could be no compromise” This was the gist of what he said. I
haven't heard anybody shout like that about politics since the 1990s. Education funding has been in the news
a lot lately. But of the three issues, the mergers of schools, the
drying up for funding to private schools, and funding to the Russian
language Vene Lyceum, it is clearly the third that causes most
passion.
So it was that the deputy mayor
responsible for education, Mihhail Kõlvart, faced a vote of no
confidence in the City council last week.
He was always going to win. The Centre
party have an absolute majority, and what they say, goes.
The attempt to impea…